Sentence examples for expected christmas from inspiring English sources

Marks & Spencer today revealed a resilient Christmas trading, producing better than expected Christmas sales despite taking a £50m hit from the snow.

Morrisons has surprised the City with better than expected Christmas trading results.

While some retailers have reported better than expected Christmas sales, there are major concerns for the coming months.

A notable gainer was retailer Next, up 210p to £67.25 after a better than expected Christmas performance.

John Lewis enjoyed a better than expected Christmas, grabbing market share from rivals, as the department store benefited from a surge in shopping via mobile phones.

Next boss Lord Wolfson today said bad weather cost the retail chain £22m in lost sales but that discounting by rivals and its own mistakes also contributed to a weaker than expected Christmas performance.

The expected Christmas Eve Senate vote to pass a health care reform bill will be a remarkable, historic event.

Farmers expect this Christmas to be an average year for live Christmas trees.

I am sure some people expect this Christmas to be full of additional grief, sadness and pain, but it will probably be less painful because Dad is not here.

Some retailers were expected to issue profit warnings after worse-than-expected Christmas trading, but some big names below shocked the City, sending share prices sharply lower: Debenhams kicked off the post-Christmas retail trading updates before the new year with a grim update on 31 December.

Humphrey Singer, the finance director, said he expected a "great" Christmas trading period and was not worried about prospects for the business in 2017.